WHEELS ON CAMPUS -- A GUIDE TO WHEELCHAIR-FRIENDLY HIGHER EDUCATION (part 10)

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

Texas A&M University at College Station, with nearly 54,000 undergraduate students — the largest student body population in the U.S. — is spread over a campus of more than 5,000 acres. 

A paratransit system that runs on campus is widely praised by wheelchair users. 

As the first pub­lic university in Texas, founded in 1876 as the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Texas, the original campus has grown to include several state branches with a wide array of both under­graduate and graduate degree programs as well as global promi­nence as a research institution. 

Students may at first seem over­whelmed with options, but 92% of freshmen undergraduates at TAMU successfully complete their first-year studies, one of the highest retention rates in the nation.